Shadowrun mixes the genres of cyberpunk and urban fantasy to create a setting that players have been exploring through various mediums since the late 80s.

Are you ready to risk everything? The Sixth World. One of the most enduring RPG settings ever created, with shadows growing deeper and darker in its latest edition. Dominated by enormous, world-striding megacorporations strangling metahumanity in their clutches, by 2080 most of the planet has surrendered to these corporate overlords. But from the darkest shadows, defiance flickers in people known as shadowrunners. They risk everything—wrestling magical energies, channeling them into power; putting their minds against the electronic void of the Matrix; trading flesh and blood for chrome and steel. Stand up, join them, and dare to risk it all!

Catalyst have promised that the new edition, marking the game's thirtieth anniversary year, will be easier to learn, while providing an in-depth role-playing experience.

It will be starting with the release of the Shadowrun, Sixth World Beginner Box this June.

Until then, Catalyst is releasing a novella tying into the characters from the Beginner Box.

The novella is written by Dylan Birtolo, who has previously worked on the Shadowrun novella Blind Magic and the game Shadowrun: Sprawl Ops, and is available as of today.

Shadowrun is a game I have never had a chance to play myself, but its legacy and influence are undeniable. The fusion of fantasy and cyberpunk is one that I have been wanting to experience for a while, so I hope that this Beginner Box and a new edition will give me the chance to delve in.

I have been interested from Shadpwrun ever since I was teenager and I read about it from gaming magazine (one people working in that one was fan) but I haven’t have chances to get into it so I hope that I can finally do so with this new edition.

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Shredhead

Do you still need 100 dice to roll for your stuff? It seriously got a bit ridiculous on that front. The 2050’s are still my favorite setting as well. My favorite RPG setting, I have to say.

Shadowrun was the first RPG I ever played back in the mid 90s, and I loved it
Unfortunately time has moved on and the some of the the near future background never happened. The dragon erupting out of mount Fuji in 2015 and Charles and Diana’s third child been two of them.

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I used to play a lot of Shadowrun, I’m a sucker for metaplot and this has had bags of it.

Awe Sam, Sam, this is one you need to play. Among the oldest, continuously published RPGs except for the progenitor, D&D. Originally published in 1988 and releasing product every year since, I’ve been playing since the beginning. The 3.0 rule set is still my favorite but the story is what keeps me in. 30 years of continuing, compelling story. 60+ novels and thousands of pages of fluff show a world of dystopian science meshed with the fantasy tropes of magic and the fantasy races. Story that works! Troll with pintle mount machine guns as their sidearm, dwarves as getaway drivers, elven computer hackers, blood magic and space travel

4th and 5th edition rolls tried to put game mechanics ahead of story and became to rules heavy. Let’s hope catalyst puts the effort into 6th edition that their Battletech line has received.

Hopefully they will clean up the rules, make them less ambiguous and consistent through out the line. The core of the system is fine its just there is just so many fiddly bits that just seem to slow things down at times. Also I would like some design rules for making vehicles and drones from the bottom up and not just modding what is there.